Quotes About Education

By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.

As a former teacher and someone who has devoted her entire career to children and public schools, I understand the pain and frustration of parents who feel their children are not receiving the education they deserve.

I spent grades one through nine in Baltimore City, leaving for reasons that had nothing to do with the quality of education I was receiving.

Receiving my first degree was one of the most important days of my life.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

I recently started my own NP17 Academy within Liverpool Community College, which gives 16-19-year-old girls an opportunity to embark on a sports career, whether it be as a coach, player, physio, or nutritionist.

My daughter is 8 years old, and just recently she came to me and said a girl called her fat. And I couldn't imagine that was going on in second grade. It just blows my mind that kids are already being influenced by the media and using words this way.

We must make sure that there is recess and P.E. class in every school, getting kids outside for 60 minutes, every day.

Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.

When I was a kid, school recess and physical education class were times for kids to run around and play games.

Right now many schools have no recess. Most schools have no PE.

We are in the middle of an education recession.

You wouldn't try and make a cake without a recipe book. Careers are just the same.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

On TV, I really try to go back to the basics and break down a recipe until it's very easy.

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

I am very new to cooking. At school, our home economics lessons were very poor. We were told to pick a recipe and then cook it. So no actual teaching involved then.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.

I know how to bring recipes down to the level where people with no experience can feel comfortable making them.

Donorschoose.org is the one place where somebody with $10 gets the same level of impact and feedback from the recipients that Bill Gates gets when he's making a million-dollar gift.

As a former recipient of these services I can honestly say that the overwhelming majority of TANF recipients are hard-working Americans who are down on their luck, and just want an opportunity to better their lives and those of their family through work and access to education.

I am the proud and humble recipient of more than 30 honorary doctorate degrees.

As a child, I learned hundreds of poems by heart, which I can recite to this day.